Biography
Joshua D. Sparrow, MD
Joshua D. Sparrow, MD, is a child, adolescent, and general psychiatrist; associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School; director of strategy, planning, and program development at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center; and supervisor for outpatient psychiatry services at Children's Hospital Boston. He has served as associate professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Marseille in Marseille, France. A graduate of Yale Medical School, Sparrow went through residency training and child psychiatry fellowship at Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals and is board certified in child/adolescent and general psychiatry. Before his medical training, he worked for several years as a preschool teacher and journalist in New York.
Sparrow is the co-author with T. Berry Brazelton, MD, of eight books, translated into at least seven languages: Touchpoints Three to Six: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development, and the "Brazelton Way" series: Calming Your Fussy Baby, Discipline, Sleep, Toilet Training, Feeding Your Child, Understanding Sibling Rivalry, and Mastering Anger and Aggression. He also writes a weekly, syndicated New York Times column, "Families Today." Sparrow is also a regular contributor to Family Circle and Parent and Child and the author of numerous scholarly papers published in the United States and Europe. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on child and adolescent development.
Sparrow's work with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center has included consultation on child development and parenting to the Harlem Children's Zone and to American-Indian Early Head Start Programs. He has also consulted to parents and schools in New York in response to the Sept. 11 disaster. He has served as consultant to the Discovery Channel's Ready, Set, Learn children's television series, the Fox Family television show Brazelton on Parenting, the I Am Your Child Foundation video on "Discipline," and has been called upon by a wide range of national and international media, including ABC World News, the Boston Globe, the CBS Early Show, Child magazine, Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and many others.
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